in australia, the heat has caused the bureau of immediateologiimmediate immediate -- immediate meteorology has caused them to come up with new colors. heather, we have talked about this as a green issue or as an environmental issue. it is economically calamitous for the domestic economy, global economy, to continue to let this go on unabated without any kind of policy discussion around it. >> absolutely. it's one of those things where it's really hard for people to hold in their minds both the stats you listed and incredible degree of the crisis and the fact we are essentially not at a crisis response on a day-to-day basis. progressives in congress, the president of the united states, has not said this is a world war ii type of mobilization that we should be at. one of the things that's really been missing is the kind of leadership from the business community that you would see, you would think you would see, given how much this is going to and has already having an economic impact. i checked before i came here. we talk about that nearly dust bowl level drought that was here this year, 51%